Scotland’s sf & fantasy bookstore

New Titles – w/e 2nd December 2017

in hardcover:

Nick Harkaway – Gnomon large, complex near future novel set in a world of total surveillance, about the investigation of someone’s death in Police custody, who appears to have had multiple personalities, including one from the future!

in large format:

R. G. Stearns – Barbary Station 2 engineers end up on a battered old space station but find a rogue AI controlling it and trying to kill everyone!

S. A. Chakraborty – City of Brass lush 18th C fantasy where spirits and djinns still haunt the back streets of Cairo…Kari Maaren – Weave a Circle Round the new neighbours’ house seems to defy the laws of physics and somehow unhappy Freddie becomes stuck with them in the distant past…

Peter S. Beagle – The OverNeath new short story collection

in paperback:

Lisanne Norman – Shades of Gray the 8th Shodan Alliance novel. Should have had it ages ago, but it’s here now!Nicholas Sansbury Smith – Extinction War 7th in the series…

Star Trek: Prometheus – Fire With Fire featuring the missions of the U.S.S. Prometheus. Set at the same time as Kirk and the Enterprise and written by Bernd Perplies & Christian HumbergStar Trek: Titan – Fortune of War featuring Admiral William Riker and written by David Mack

art, etc:

Jamie Hewlett – Works From the Last 25 Years very hefty hardback from Taschen

John Fleskes (editor) – Spectrum 24 the soft cover edition of the annual contemporary fantastic art collectionJoan Rock Clokey & Joe Clokey – Gumby Imagined: The Story of Art Clokey and His Creations big book all about the American plasticene character and his friends

Jean Annestay & Christophe Quillien – Deconstructing The Incal everything you wanted to know about Jodorowsky & Mobius‘ most famous creationGregory Mardon – Adrift b&w 1930s nautical adventure, from Humanoids in softcoverPedrosa – Portugal English language edition of the prize-winning bande desinee. A jaded writer rediscovers his spirit after being invited to a foreign comic con and meeting long-lost family…

Simon Spurrier & Kelly and Nicholl Matthews – Jim Henson‘s The Power of the Dark Crystal volume 1 hardcoverWinsor McCay – Little Nemo in the Palace of Ice and further adventures large hardcover of one of the best sections of the Little Nemo comic strip, from 1907

Andy Hirsch – Science Comics: Dogs 6th in the series of child-friendly looks at various subjects…

Harry Potter: A History of Magic serious companion volume to the exhibition of the same name currently on at the British LibraryHarry Potter: A Journey Through ‘A History of Magic’ soft cover book to accompany the exhibition; more obviously HP based than the other book

Transreal Fiction

Transreal Fiction is a shop dedicated to selling science fiction, fantasy & related books, together with a limited selection of other merchandise.But really, it’s about books. Transreal Fiction opened in April 1997 in Cowgatehead and moved to it’s present location nearby in June 2011. The owner, Mike Calder, first sold sf & f books many years ago and has worked in the business either part- or full-time since. For years he also had a respectable job as well, but that’s another story…

The shop is named after the term coined by Rudy Rucker to describe his fiction and I thought it an apt name for a shop specialising in speculative fiction. And, in case you’re wondering, yes, Rudy Rucker was happy to allow me to use of the term as a name for my shop.